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  Re: This is the sort of brokenness...  
From: Darren New
Date: 19 Mar 2009 14:36:35
Message: <49c290b3$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>>   Ok, "written agreement" then, if you want to nitpick. Not much difference.
>>> Still not enforced nor sanity-checked by anyone or anything.
> 
>> Here is where Larry Wall's quote really applies. ;)
> 
>   Since when have code sanity checks become a bad thing?

When they become something to work around, rather than a help to the 
programmer. If you need to go read the source code of the module you're 
accessing to figure out how to get to the private variables, it's no longer 
a "code sanity check" IMO.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
   unable to read this, even at arm's length."


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